* Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:01:13PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > ( Also, it's a GPL nitpicky issue: the conflict resolution database > > can be argued to be part of "source code" and as such it should be > > shared with everyone who asks. With trivial merges the data is > > probably not copyrightable hence probably falls outside the scope > > of the GPL, but with a complex topic tree like -tip with dozens of > > conflict resolutions, the boundary is perhaps more blurred. ) > > For a more complex merge resolution, granted that it rises to the > level of being "copyrightable", but I think it would be a huge stretch > to call the rr-cache the "preferred form for modifications"! :-) yeah - i'm not really arguing any detail of the GPL here. I'm arguing the principle: there should be no technical assymetry between maintainer and contributor. So if i am able to run an effort-free integration of 85 topic branches, i'd like contributors (who will eventually grow up into co-maintainer roles in the future) to be able to do the same, if they want to do so. right now that is simply not possible technically - it's even very hard to share a .git/rr-cache with a co-maintainer whom i can trust with my index file. (which is an otherwise unsafe private binary cache that i'd not put into a public repository as it could in theory contain lots of unrelated data and is not endian-safe, etc.) Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
